hello I'm a newbie and I'm uploading a new site. All of the file for my site are on a zip file. I was wondering if I just click and drag the zip file to my new website folder or do I have to click and drag each of them one by one?
You should upload zip file if you have ssh access to your site. In this case after upload completed (via ftp, filezilla) you need open ssh (by putty or another program) and do unzip your_file.zip Code (markup): If you haven't ssh you need upload your files on by one.
PHP/Mysql :unless you have a php/mysql site, such as Wordpress or Drupal. they require a little more work to upload and configure on a website. you will need your Cpanel/control panel login to access phpmyadmin to upload your SQL database. HTML: just drag and drop ALL contents into public_html/ you should see a folder called " cgi-bin " thats where the files will go for your site to work properly. hope it helps!
If there are large amount of files, upload the zip file and have your hosting provider to unzip them in the public_html folder. This will make your task easier. If you don't have the SSH access and the hosting provider won't unzip it for you, the only option is to upload the files manually without zipping them. The Ftp software allows you to select all files/folders at once and upload them but they will be held in queue and will be uploaded one by one automatically.
You can just upload the .zip file into your website home directory and use cPanel unzip feature to extract it there... if you upload all the files already extracted it takes way more than uploading the archive.